Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Sunni Students' Federation to target Salafis, Jamaat-e-Islami on Islamic State

Sunni Students' Federation to target Salafis, Jamaat-e-Islami on Islamic State

MALAPPURAM: Taking a
dig at Jamaat-e-Islami and Salafi organisations, the student's wing of
the Sunni faction led by Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar has
launched a campaign seeking to expose the alleged connections of the
Salafi and Jamaat founding leaders with the concept of Islamic State and
extreme religious views. The Sunni Students' Federation (SSF) has
launched the drive with public conferences in five major cities
including Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and selected cities of Malabar
districts besides a state wide campaign named Sauhruda Kaalam which will
be concluded on October 20.

"Our campaign seeks to expose how the
onslaught of Salafism cracked the camaraderie within Muslim community
and others who tried to build an Islamic State in India," says M.A
Majeed Ariyalloor, state general secretary of SSF. "Both parties have
shunned the traditional Muslims who stand for pluralism." Special
seminars which are meant to depict the true picture popular comradeships
of historical personalities of various communities who propagated
communal amity will also be organised in all districts.

"The history of the friendship between
Mamburam Sayed Alavi Thangal, a sufi saint and Konthu Nair, a
philanthropist during early British era, will be the subject matter of a
seminar slated to be held in Tirurangadi next month," he said. The
latest edition of Risala, the mouthpiece of the SFF, has carried a cover
story which exposes connections of Jamathe Islami founder in Kerala
Haji Sahib's connections with the concept of Islamic State.

"Haji Sahib left for Islamic State
constituted by Abul Ala Maududi, founder of Jamathe Islami, in Pathankot
and wrote to his friend back in Manjeri that this was the true Islamic
state and Maududi was the Khalifa," the article in the weekly reads. The
weekly also quotes many striking revelations from a book Islamika
Prasthanam; Munnil Nadannavar written by Sheik Muhammed Karakkunnu, the
assistant ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami.